--Soundgarden "Fell on Black Days" Name: Lord Khanys Plagion, aka Plague Dog Title: Master of Elemental Sorcery Race: Human, shadow transfigured Birthplace: Nivain, Jovira, Balefor Age: 85 chronological, 45 biological Occupation: Planar Shadow Mage Physical description: Plagion is tall and muscular at 6'4', 215 lbs, every ounce of it cold and sinister. His long dark brown hair often has an unkempt appearance in contrast to his neatly groomed goatee and mustache. His nearly black eyes seem like darkness in physical form. His voice is as cold and soft as a shadow. He wears black mage robes over black pants and black boots, all of which seem to absorb light and muffle all sound, his cloak seeming to shift around him like a shadow, wraithing about his head to form a hood when he does not wish his features to be exposed. He is also able to take the form of shadow, a featureless black outline of himself, and pure darkness, in which he loses even an outline. Personality: Plagion's soul is as dark as the shadows that feed it. His only passions are for knowledge and power and he has no use for those who cannot further his ambitions in either. Coldly practical, he is not the sort to waste his time being cruel for cruelty's sake, but he will not flinch from it if it serves his purpose. He is free with his scorn, but there are few who are able to break through his deep self-control and bring him to actual anger. Those that do become his enemies should not expect an outright confrontation. Plagion is a true snake in the grass and will carefully plot their downfall. Abilities: A master of shadow element as well as magic, Plagion is able to control shadow to the highest degree a mortal can attain. He is a master sorcerer as well and can cast all spells of the tenth level with ease. He is trained in combat with both staff and dagger, but detests forced combat. Items: Spellbooks, shadow cloak, spell components, shadow dagger (+6), Staff of Antithedis (+5, stores spell power, casts spells at level four), several enspelled items Family : None. Associates: Dalamar the Dark (Master of the Tower of High Sorcery), Shandara (Black Robe Mage), Lyrralt (Assistant to Dalamar), Nightlord (High Priest of Chemosh) Theme Songs: Fell on Black Days / Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden Actor: John Malkovich, who has the size and the voice, as well as the ability to be subtly sinister. Dalamar the Dark Born the bastard son of a magelord on the world of Balifor, Plagion grew up with all the disadvantages of his birth. However, his father's blood showed early and strong in the lad, and he soon escaped poverty and outcast status by becoming apprentice to a shadow mage. By the time he was 30, Plagion had mastered magic and the element of shadows to a point where he was able to overthrow his father, showing no mercy to the man who had refused to recognize him. Not satisfied with ruling a feifdom, Plagion next declared war on the neighboring lands. One after another they fell to the ruthless and ambitious mage, who used his connection to the dark gods and his planar gifts to overwhelm all who stood against him. When all of Balifor was within his grasp, Plagion gathered the most promising youths of the world to his tower and trained them as his loyal mage minions, controlling them by gaining power over their very souls, capturing them within soulstones so that with a simple spell he could discipline them, even killing them or banishing them to the Abyss. However, he treated them well, so long as they remained loyal and obedient, and many of his mages came to look upon him with respect and devotion more than fear. As his power base grew, the dark gods saw in him an opportunity to destroy the light gods forever. With his lust for even more power, Plagion agreed to be their Dark Reaver, learning the most forbidden and costly of spells, God Killer. With ten of his most powerful shadow mages, Plagion pursued the light gods into the celestial planes, destroying them one by one. Alarmed by the easy success of their ambitious servant, the dark gods soon began to fear that he would not stop with destroying light, but that they also would fall to his Dark Reaver powers. Their fears proved to have base when Plagion destroyed two of the dark gods for failing to reward him as they had promised. The remaining dark gods banded together to defend themselves, and when Plagion appeared before them to collect his reward, they stripped of him the Dark Reaver and cursed him and his men to a fate worse than death, transforming them to Hellhounds of the Abyss, incorporeal skeletal horrors with canine skulls. To further the punishment, they destroyed the world that he had conquered for his own, then abandoned the plane. Plagion, now the Plague Dog of the Abyss, immediately began to wander the planes, searching for a way to end the curse for himself and his shadow mages. After 40 years of this half-existance, he finally came in contact with a powerful mage of another world, Krynn, named Dalamar the Dark. Dalamar was not foolish enough to trust Plagion, but he was drawn by the thought of having such a powerful ally, and agreed to petition Nuitari, the dark god of magic of Krynn, to remove the curse, on the provision that Plagion and his men would become loyal to Dalamar, serving his interests. With little option, Plagion reluctantly agreed to the terms. The petition was granted, and once more the plague dogs were able to assume the corporeal forms they wore before their curse. With true bodies at last, Plagion and his mages entered the Tower of High Sorcery, Plagion taking up the position of Dalamar's lieutenant and chief spy. Index | Jump Page | Artwork | Writing | IRC & FFRP | Characters | Dragonlance | Squaresoft | Goodies Guestbook | Links | Link to Us | Rings & Awards | Credits | Site History | Contact Text and Web Layout ©2000 Elisa Jaraba Graphics and Design ©2000 The Madhouse Contact Lyssa Jaraba, [email protected] Revised May 23, 2000